These settings allow you to control the computer resources that RuleTrader uses, which can avoid errors, save disk space and accelerate the speed that session files are saved and loaded.

Memory Saving Settings: During back-tests over long periods, when a large number of shares may be selected by your Trading Spec, a lot of system memory can be used storing all the data that is inevitably generated during the back-test. This is rarely an issue in live sessions but if Out Of Memory errors occur in ShareScope, then you can use these settings to specify the actions to take to conserve system memory, if the number of shares in your trading system’s trading list (combined across all strategies) exceeds the thresholds you specify here.

Disk Saving Settings: Live session data files can become quite large. The main culprit is the data that is saved for historical channels (i.e. all those previous channels other than the current channel). As there are more of the shorter time-period channels (e.g. micro and short), you can save a lot of disk space by checking the options to not save this type of channel. It will also significantly increase the speed that these files are saved to, and loaded from, disk.